EU Delivers Blunt Rebuke: 'This Is Not Our War' — Rejects Trump's Call for Help in Strait of Hormuz"
European Union foreign ministers on Monday firmly rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s calls for European warships to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, declaring the escalating conflict with Iran “not Europe’s war” even as global oil prices surged past $100 a barrel.a75e8e The decisive pushback came during an emergency meeting of the bloc’s 27 foreign ministers in Brussels, where leaders discussed — and ultimately dismissed — expanding the EU’s existing Aspides naval mission (originally created to counter Houthi attacks in the Red Sea) to the vital Gulf waterway. “This is not Europe’s war,” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told reporters after the closed-door talks. “Europe has no interest in an open-ended war… Nobody wants to go actively in this war.” She added that there was “no appetite” among member states to change the mission’s mandate or send ships to the strait.f51799 The rejection marks a sharp transatlantic rift at a critical moment. Iran has effectively blockaded ...